“If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.”
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“One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.”
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“We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.”
“The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.”
“Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)
“When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.”
“We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.”
Source: The Portable Voltaire
“Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.”
Source: Voltaire – The Philosophical Works: Treatise On Tolerance, Philosophical Dictionary, Candide, Letters on England, Plato’s Dream, Dialogues, The Study of Nature, Ancient Faith and Fable, Zadig…: From the French writer, historian and philosopher, famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion and freedom of expression
“He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.”